Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc176c779b597ba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b306b3bc01ea6c16e10642e8dc3d179a SHA-1: fb8249dcf5c33e80d053e7d6737c8f30437cf445 SHA-256: bc176c779b597ba7c2574569088696acccae1bbf3257279f0184349a6a107888
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=luffy+anime+battle+arena PDF link annotation
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/73411447624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d1f8d9e1101e6702996b4a22de4096/2292663220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59402ab0ec665055b5fa782dd0e267d/88777252607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/36351530949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df46f464cd---30376817981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/rovupuwasatogokigifuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2543cd243a---70640128864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8095e174078438942bcd174687dd4d/divewowakigaviwamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/60740428048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/7756859136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a394a4c064e---83486089230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/19224060834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5093d8c6e---75543421259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be1e669f01---27503814711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51jinlb4bev1vnj92q83vck7vj/ropirefeduzazusebigosala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/81542464403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/birete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/zovisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d45e6957fa---40586918693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/boxamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68773023680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490886613e417ffdc2d4208d1837d687/38065176161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08dfcd02af8466e6d53e099f4799d013/76046071330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e17586803c0---zotijosenusaxipibimofinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/zupawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64A 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 955bc11da3f640cc98f4af8b676f6161cf5bd5bdb0396f4bb22a5b50f83b6e4d
font_01_sfnt_off00011107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11107 10396 bytes
SHA-256: bd476c5f150ea427b75c06a6cb1a61dc9bf1346ea4fdf415f3f92163ece09661
font_02_sfnt_off00012882.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12882 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1